urutzizu
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« on: May 25, 2022, 05:25:40 PM » |
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Six weeks after Imran Khan was removed, Pakistan is descending into economic collapse and autocracy:
- currency crisis, which has forced the Government to ban the import of all "non-essential" goods (to save forex, see sri lanka), widespread shortages
- Default likely, IMF talks have failed because the Government cannot politically afford to fulfill demands, especially cutting fuel subsidies
- Mass Protests and Riots by Khan supporters to force new elections, the PDM Government is brutally cracking down, held together only by its common fear/loathing of Imran Khan
- Opposition members and journalists arrested, media channels being shut down
- Capital on Lockdown, Army being called in to guard key buildings
Looks like a real bad situation, in what is a nuclear weapons country and where a large section of the population is armed. Best case scenario probably ends in either in some PDM collapse and return of Imran Khan (now even more anti-western than before), otherwise a full-fledged military coup, or worse. Difficult to avoid coming to the conclusion that removing IK at this specific time rather than waiting was a huge miscalculation by PDM (and to a certain extent the West, which was sympathetic to them).
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